Montia parvifolia (Moc. ex DC.) Greene

Montia parvifolia is a variable diploid and tetraploid species. Plants with larger flowers, leaves, and seeds have been treated as var. flagellaris (Bongard) C. L. Hitchcock or as the separate species M. sweetseri Henderson. Because the complex has not been studied using modern methods, and the variation observed in herbarium specimens has no correlated geographical base, I adopt the position of K. L. Chambers (1993) and do not recognize the two above-mentioned taxa at this time. I equate the species situation here to that of M. fontana and choose not to recognize infraspecific taxa.

Plants perennial, often bul-biferous, with branched caudices, mat forming. Stems simple erect or ascending, 10-30 cm. Leaves basal and alternate, petiolate; blade oblanceolate, 10-70 × 4-12 mm. Inflorescences leafy, from apices of fertile caudex branches (determinate) or from leaf axils of shortened fertile caudex (indeterminate), sometimes bulbiliferous in leaf axils. Flowers 1-12, showy; sepals 2-3.5 mm; petals 5, pink or white, 6-15 mm; stamens 5, anther pink. Seeds 0.8-1.5 mm; eliaosome rounded, minute, shorter than 0.5 mm, shiny, appearing smooth. 2n = 22, 44.

Alta., B.C.; Alaska, Calif., Idaho, Mont., Nev., Oreg., Utah, Wash.

Flowering late spring-mid summer.

Moist or wet soils and rocky cliffs of coastal and inland mountains; 0-2800m.

Claytonia parvifolia de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 3: 361. 1828; Naiocrene parvifolia (de Candolle) Rydberg

Naiocrene parvifolia Moc.) Rydberg, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 139. 1906.
Clayionia parvifolia Moc.; DC. Prodr. 3: 361. 1828.
Clayionia filicaulis Dougl.: Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 224.
Motttia parvifolia Greene, Fl. Fran. 181. 1891.
Monlia oblusata A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 32. 1905.
Saiocrene oblusata A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 3: 147. 1908.
Xaiocrene filicaulis A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 3: 147. 1908.
Saiocrene par-.i flora Rvdb. Fl. Rockv Mts. 265 (err.). 1917.
rClovtonio rupicola Suksd. Werdenda 1: 12. 1923.
'Clayionia parvifolia rupicola Poelln. Repert. Sp. Nov. 30: 312. 1932.
Perennial, with a rootstock; stem 1-6 cm. long, leaves clustered, petioled, more or less fleshy; petioles 0.5—2.5 cm. long, dilated and scarious at the base; leaf-blades spatulate or oblanceolate, 0.5-2 cm. long, acute or obtuse; branches 1-3 dm. long, most of them flowerbearing at the end, decumbent or ascending, often bearing bulb-like deciduous offshoots in the axils, others more slender and sarmentose and sterile; lower leaves similar to those of the rosettes, but usually smaller and narrower: upper leaves linear and sessile; flowers few, racemose-cymose at the ends of the branches; pedicels 5-15 mm. long; sepals unequal, 2-3 mm. long, striate, rounded-ovate; petals 7-8 mm. long, light-pink, oblanceolate, rounded or slightly retuse at the apex; capsule rounded-obovoid, scarcely equaling the calyx; seeds black, shining, minutely reticulately grooved, more than 1 mm. long. Type locality: Nootka Sound, British Columbia. Distribution : Alaska to Montana, Idaho, and California.

Planhigyn blodeuol dyfrol yw Porpin manddail sy'n enw gwrywaidd. Mae'n perthyn i'r teulu Portulacaceae. Yr enw gwyddonol (Lladin) yw Montia parvifolia a'r enw Saesneg yw Small-leaved blinks.

Mae'n fonocotyledon ac mae'n tyfu mewn dwyfroedd trofannol ac isdrofannol.

Montia parvifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common names little-leaf miner's lettuce, small-leaved blinks and small-leaved montia. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to Montana, where it grows in moist to wet areas in several types of mountain habitat.

Montia parvifolia er plöntutegund sem var lýst af Edward Lee Greene. Hún er ættuð frá vesturhluta Norður-Ameríku.